ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,465, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Kugelmeiers AG (Erlenbach, Switzerland).
"Cell culture apparatus" was invented by Patrick Kugelmeier (Zollikerberg, Switzerland), Martin Meier (Uster, Switzerland) and Guillaume Jung (Wermatswil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a cell culture apparatus for cultivating cell spheroids, comprising at least one compartment having n compartment walls which define a compartment base area and a volume VK above the compartment base area and a multiplicity of microwells having p top edges and a volume VM, wherein the microwells are arranged in the compartment base area ...